How to put video on your web site viewed by thousand of

Recently FLV video format is the preferred and most popular video format for web video delivering. A number of notable Website, such as Youtube, Google video and Reuters, use FLV format. FLV video is supported by all popular browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera...) and viewable on different operating systems (MacOS, Windows, and Linux). You just need a SWF file working as a media player with screen and playback controls, and embed Flash video in (or link it to) the SWF player to display the video on your web page.

Instructions

Difficulty: Challenging

Things You’ll Need:

• FLV Player
• Video Encoder for Adobe Flash

1. youtube player Choose an appropriate Flash video converter and Flash video player
   
   There are a number of video to FLV converters which you can find on the Internet ranging in price from free to over $100, such as Riva FLV converter (free),Video Encoder for Adobe Flash($45), Geovid Video to flash Converter ($99.95), Flash Video MX Pro($89), Sorenson Squeeze 4.5 ($249). Some converters can only convert video to FLV format, not providing Flash video player which is a SWF file you must have to play Flash video on the Web. You can create a Flash video player yourself using Flash authoring tool, or you can download a free Flash video player directly (JW FLV Player is recommended). And some Flash video converters provide Flash video players. For example, the software Video Encoder for Adobe Flash I chose here, enables users to configure the conversion settings freely to get the ideal quality, and can create a Flash video player automatically with customizable playback control skins. The created Flash video player can auto-adapt to the video’s width, height and aspect ratio, thus the FLV video can be displayed without black bars (See the screenshot below). It's very impressive!
   
   Youtube Flash video player:
2. Step 1. Load the video
   Launch Video Encoder for Adobe Flash. Click "Select..." and choose a video file that you want to convert.
3. Step 2. Edit the video
   Click "Crop & Trim", if you want to edit the source video. You can crop the video, if you want to remove blackbars, or just want a part of the picture. You can trim the video, if you just want to convert a certain duration of video.
4. Step 3. Configure the conversion settings
   Select "User-defined" to enable yourself to customize the audio and video settings. And specify the audio setting and video settings properly. You can check the help file to find more detailed guidance.
5. Step 4. Specify output settings
   Specify an output folder to save the created FLV and SWF files. Check both "Generate FLV" and "Generate SWF ".
   If you want to create a SWF player which can play different FLV files dynamically, you should choose "Get the FLV path from a URL variable and play progressively". Then you need to specify a URL variable name (in the right blank), then the created SWF player can get the FLV path from HTML code using this variable name.
   Otherwise, you can simply choose "Play the created external FLV file progressively".
6. Step 5. Choose skin for Flash video player
   Select a color scheme and style you like. Choose "Classic (Black, Full)" for example. "Full" control panel provides all controls including Play, Pause, Fast forward/backward, Volume control, Mute, Elapsed Time and Duration.
7. Step 6. Start conversion
   Click "Next" to start conversion. It will take a few minutes.
   After the conversion finishes, open the output folder, then you can see the created ".flv" and ".swf" files. You can also use free software FLV Player to play the .flv video directly to see if its quality is good enough. If not, you need to convert the video again, and try some different conversion settings.

Tips & Warnings

• Step 1. Upload the created ".swf" file and the ".flv" video file to the same folder on your server. For example, if you want to show the video on http://www.myhomepage.com/index.htm, then upload the ".swf" and ".flv" files together to the path http://www.myhomepage.com/.
• It is simple to put your video on your own site: Step 1, convert your video to FLV format, and create a Flash video player for it; Step 2, Upload the created files to your server, add the code to your webpage, and specify the right parameters.